The Nursery

Almost 10 months since Andrew was born, here is his little nursery. It's small, simple, and colorful.  A blend of Ikea and handmade features.

We are using the Stuva storage system from Ikea as our dresser/changing table.  

The cloud shelf was handmade and given to me as a gift. My mom and I made the felt birds, Andrew LOVES them and always smiles when he sees them move.

The bookshelf is also from Ikea (Expedit) and was also given to me as a gift. The white Gulliver crib from Ikea was also given to us as a gift. My mom made me custom covers for the cubes that go inside the bookshelf.

 My mom also made all of the cross stitch work in the nursery. I bought the little frog pattern on Etsy from The Floss Box.

The little flags were decorations my friend Candice and I made for my baby shower. I painted the little bird house and the two watercolor paintings.

So there you have it, my favorite room in the house. I sleep there every night. What do you think?

October

My favorite month of the year! Our home renovations are finally over... At least for the most part, there still might be minor details that need to be done, but for now, we can say they're done! It was a very stressful experience (even tears of frustration were involved). We never thought it would take almost 7 weeks to complete.

When we finally decided on what colors to paint, we went with only 2 different ones for the whole place. Soothing Celadon by Behr for the kitchen, living room, both bathrooms and the baby room. And Antique White, also by Behr, for the dining room, hallway and our bedroom.

(Master bedroom bathroom, that was never in use before remodeling)

They also replaced, fixed, and removed little things through out the place, in addition to painting and remodeling the two bathrooms. We got our carpet from Lowe's. We chose a nylon frieze carpet, it's kind of shaggy, but so far we like it. We are really taking care of it this time, we pretty much vacuum every day haha.

We still have a few boxes of things we have listed on craigslist and other boxes that need to go up in the attic. I also finally sold my wedding dress! I couldn't believe it, I've had it on craigslist for years! One less thing taking up room in the closet and a bit of extra cash to buy baby things :)

I don't think I ever mentioned it on here, but a few months ago we also sold our second car. We are now a one car household. And since we are trying to make room for baby, we are now also a one desktop computer household, we just couldn't find a place for 2 desks in our small condo.

I would be freaking out about having only one computer at home, considering Mike works from home most of the time, but, I got an amazing early birthday present from my wonderful husband: a very cool smart phone! I'm so in love with it! It's a Samsung Galaxy S :)

(♥ My precious ♥)

Anyway, I'll be back soon with pregnancy and nursery updates, so stay tuned ;)

In love

(Images taken from Creature Comforts)

Isn't it beautiful? I'm loving those colors right now. Even though that room is for a 10 year old, I really wouldn't mind my room looking like that! See the rest of the pictures at Ez's blog Creature Comforts or at her Flickr.